May 27, 2005
Well drilling paused due to rain.
It's been MIGHTY RAINY up here in Boston, so the drilling folks have had to slow up their work for fear of getting the rig stuck up in the woods. This weekend is looking a little better, so hopefully the ground will firm up and they can get started again.
In the meantime, the property is blooming! We've only seen it in the winter, so seeing all the greenery and flowers and plants coming up really makes it feel like it's coming alive. Yay!
Posted by dbs in Status reports at 10:00 AM
May 23, 2005
Well drilling commences
Today was the first day the drill rig was able to get up into the property for our well drilling. We'll need a fairly decent water feed, so the well is pretty important. There's plans to do 2 full drillings, assuming we hit water. There's plenty of room, it's just a matter of time (and expense!) looking around.
Something I personally didn't know (or did know, but never really thought about it) - most well drilling is through solid rock. There's only a few feet of dirt up top, and from there on it's just drilling through bedrock. The hole is about 9" in diameter, the size needed for the well pump. They're looking for a fracture line in the bedrock where water is running. Fascinating.
The full picture gallery is online.
Posted by dbs in Status reports at 3:44 PM
May 22, 2005
Eco Design Workshop
Today we had a day long Eco Design Workshop with our architects (Mary and Laura of Kraus Fitch Architects and Marc Rosenbaum of Energy Smiths.
It was an extremely informative workshop, and we made a lot of very important decisions regarding the project. Marc was a fantastic presenter who is obviously very knowledgable on the topics, and he was able to lay out the issues regarding decisions in building materials, mechanical systems, and design so that we could make intelligent decisions as to where we wanted to go.
These decisions were primarily guidelines to the architects to give them ideas about what we wanted, were it to be feasible. Of course much of it comes down to money, since many of the choices regarding 'green' building also end up costing more money, but there are huge wins in the end, both financially and ecologically.
Posted by dbs in Status reports at 8:14 PM